As a school we continue to build upon our culture of learning. Recently I met with our School Improvement Leader who wanted to celebrate the significant overall improvement in our A-E rating data within our school. Much of this improvement can be attributed to the work of our teachers, TA’s and the students themselves. However, we know that parental support and all members of our school community are essential in building a love of learning and a culture of continual improvement.

Our LIFT initiative of the Drawing, Talking and Writing at Home packs has been a great success and we are seeing an immediate effect in our students' engagement and skills in writing. We have also had an uptake in older students requesting a pack so they can participate too, as well as selling out of the diaries and note books at the Book Fair. All this points to a whole school commitment to improving our writing, and we are already reaping the benefits in regard to our students' skills and knowledge reflected in improved A-E ratings. Our focus on writing will be ongoing and many years work, that will drive our students' reading comprehension, vocabulary development and topic understanding in all subject areas.  

Our year 4-6 students will be undertaking their health and wellbeing survey over the coming weeks. This is important data that we use to inform our areas of support for our students. We used the data from last year to bolster our support for students with worry and resilience issues and implemented our gender specific support programs for our upper primary students. It also helps us track our students engagement with their learning, teachers and peers. We continue to strive to enact our school vision of empowering our students to participate and succeed as creative, ethical and purposeful members of our community and society.